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No. 625,652. Patented May 23, I899.

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v MEANS FOR DETACHING HARNESS FROM SHAFTS.

(Application filed Dec. 10, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK DICKERBOOM, OF MANKATO, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNORTO OSCAR I W. SCHMIDT, OF SAME PLACE.

MEANS FOR DETACHING HARNESS FROM SHAFTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 625,652, dated May 23, 1899. Application filed December 10,1898. Serial No. 698,881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FREDERICK DICKER- BOOM, of Mankato, in the cou nty of Blue Earth and State of Minnesota, have invented a new and Improved Harness Attachment, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to that class of harness attachments which are adapted to be fastened to the thills of a vehicle and to have connection with various parts of the harness, whereby said part-s of the harness are attached to the thills of a vehicle, and is an improvement on the device for which Letters Patent of the United States No. 572,873 were issued to me on the 8th day of December, 1896.

This specification is the disclosure of one form of myinvention, while the claim defines the actual scope thereof.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a sectional view of the harness attachment on the line 1 1 of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, and Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

The harness attachment is provided with a body portion having a casing 4, formed with an undercut groove 5, said groove opening at one end of the casing. ing are end extensions-6, engaged by clamps 7, which embrace the thills 8 to hold the body portion 4 rigidly in place.

Movable in the undercut groove 5 isaslide.

9, provided with a notch 10, normallyengaged by a shoulder 11 on a lock-bar l2, fitted in the casing 4 and pressed on by a bow-spring 14, whereby the shoulder 11 is caused normally to engage in the recess 10 of the slide 9. EX-

tended transversely in the casing 4 and provided with an eccentric portion engaging with the lock-bar 12 is a rotatable pin 15, formed with an annular groove 16, in which a key Formed on the cas The slide 9 is provided with a rib 19, (see Fig. 1,) which runs in a slot 19, formed in the outer face of the casing, and which has an extended portion forming a neck 20, on which is'carried the buckle-frame 21. This frame comprises the end bars 22, to engage with the vertically-extending part of the bar-- ness, and side loops 23, to engage with horizontally-extending parts of the harness. The

buckle-frame 21 is also provided with a pin 2 which is adapted to form a tongue for engaging with the several parts of the harness to hold them in place.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent In a harness attachment, the combination with a casing having an undercut groove therein, of a slide mounted to move in the groove and having a notch therein, a lock bar fitted in the casing and having a shoulder adapted to engage in the notch of the slide,

the lock-bar moving bodily toward and from the slide, a bow-spring, the ends of which bear on the lock-bar and the intermediate por tion of which bears on the casing, to push the lock-bar toward the slide, and an eccentricpin mounted in the casing and engaging the lock-bar at the side opposite-to the spring by which to move the lock-bar against the spring and away from the slide.

FREDERICK DICKERBOOM. Witnesses:

i H. S. SCHMITT,

7 CHRIS YUNTER. 

